Saturday, November 18, 2006

Christmas Countdown

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

We finally got a new van

Well after 7 years of the Dodge Grand Caravan, we decided it was having too many problems so we bought a Toyota Sienna

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Multimedia message

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Thursday, November 09, 2006

nothing

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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Here's a Tip

This year for my birthday, I decided that I wanted the family to go to "The Cracker Barrel". Nothing fancy, just a good filling meal. I've eaten there many times and never had much to comment on in regards to anything customer service related. This day was different though. After taking our order we never saw our waitress again. We were able to flag down some of the other waitresses and get what we needed but it was a bad experience. I could have talked to the manager but it was my birthday and I wasn't in the mood for getting all worked up. Sometimes when I get fired up I go a little too far. So basically, I just payed for my meal and let it go. But I couldn't let it go, it was festering inside of me. Finally about 2 months ago (my birthday was 10 months ago) I sent an email to their corporate office. I had an email response within about 1 day and the particular location that I visited had their manager call me a few days later. He talked to me about my experience and then mailed me a card for 2 free meals. Well I took advantage of it last night while my two older kids were spending the night with friends. All I should have to pay is for 1 kids meals. When I went to pay the cashier wasn't sure how to handle my card so the manager came over. He looked at the ticket, fiddled with the register for about two seconds and turned to me and said, "If the kids meal is the only thing you're paying for then we'll just get that too". Awesome. One problem though. I still need to leave a tip, and I have no cash. I was planning on putting the tip on my credit card. I stood there for about 10 minutes while they tried to figure out how to ring up an order for $0 so I could then add gratuity. Apparently it's impossible. But they were coming up with some clever ideas. One that made me laugh was when they attempted to charge me for a to-go order of water. The manager finally gave up and told me he'd just take care of the tip himself and asked me how much I wanted it to be. So I got out of there with 3 drinks, 2 adult meals, 1 kids meal, and 2 desserts, for $0, including tip. So the next time you get bad service somewhere dont be afraid to write to the corporate office.

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Spam Spam Spam

Last year (2005) I conducted a little experiment with my email. I let every bit of junk email or "spam" go into a spam folder so I could see how much junk email I got in one year. The number at the end of the year was over 10,000 messages. I was now curious to see how 2006 would turn out, with the amount of spam growing all the time. Well we are now in November and I'd noticed lately how little spam I've received. The number is hovering around 2700. Where did all the spam go? I find it hard to believe that the amount of spam in the world is decreasing, so I started to do a little investigating. Didn't take long to find that my ISP has taken the attack on spam to a new level. While my spam settings are set to mark spam as such, and go ahead and deliver it to me, they have taken it upon themselves to throw it into a spam folder on their server, one that is accessed through their "Web Mail" interface. And it gets deleted after 2 weeks. I had 19 pages of spam just for the current 2 week period. Thanks and all, but you just screwed up my 2006 experiment. (You can't see me but I'm shaking my fist at them in anger)

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